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This guide covers everything from the fundamentals of ecology to its applications to conservation biology, climate change and implications for ecosystems, as well as general problems of managing the biosphere and fisheries management. There also are several chapters on ecological economics, a new and rapidly developing field that examines the interplay between ecology and economics

Preface vii  Contributors ix      Part I: Autecology 1  I.1 Ecological Niche 3  I.2 Physiological Ecology: Animals 14  I.3 Physiological Ecology: Plants 20  I.4 Functional Morphology: Muscles, Elastic Mechanisms, and Animal Performance 27  I.5 Habitat Selection 38  I.6 Dispersal 45  I.7 Foraging Behavior 51  I.8 Social Behavior 59  I.9 Phenotypic Plasticity 65  I.10 Life History 72  I.11 Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems 79  I.12 Geographic Range 87  I.13 Adaptation 93  I.14 Phenotypic Selection 101  I.15 Population Genetics and Ecology 109  I.16 Phylogenetics and Comparative Methods 117  I.17 Microevolution 126  I.18 Ecological Speciation: Natural Selection and the Formation of New Species 134  I.19 Adaptive Radiation 143      Part II: Population Ecology 153  II.1 Age-Structured and Stage-Structured Population Dynamics 155  II.2 Density Dependence and Single- Species Population Dynamics 166  II.3 Biological Chaos and Complex Dynamics 172  II.4 Metapopulations and Spatial Population Processes 177  II.5 Competition and Coexistence in Plant Communities 186  II.6 Competition and Coexistence in Animal Communities 196  II.7 Predator-Prey Interactions 202  II.8 Host-Parasitoid Interactions 213  II.9 Ecological Epidemiology 220  II.10 Interactions between Plants and Herbivores 227  II.11 Mutualism and Symbiosis 233  II.12 Ecology of Microbial Populations 239  II.13 Coevolution 247      Part III: Communities and Ecosystems 253  III.1 Biodiversity: Concepts, Patterns, and Measurement 257  III.2 Competition, Neutrality, and Community Organization 264  III.3 Predation and Community Organization 274  III.4 Facilitation and the Organization of Plant Communities 282  III.5 Indirect Effects in Communities and Ecosystems: The Role of Trophic and Nontrophic Interactions 289  III.6 Top-Down and Bottom-Up Regulation of Communities 296  III.7 The Structure and Stability of Food Webs 305  III.8 Spatial and Metacommunity Dynamics in Biodiversity 312  III.9 Ecosystem Productivity and Carbon Flows: Patterns across Ecosystems 320  III.10 Nutrient Cycling and Biogeochemistry 330  III.11 Terrestrial Carbon and Biogeochemical Cycles 340  III.12 Freshwater Carbon and Biogeochemical Cycles 347  III.13 The Marine Carbon Cycle 358  III.14 Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning 367  III.15 Ecological Stoichiometry 376  III.16 Macroecological Perspectives on Communities and Ecosystems 386  III.17 Alternative Stable States and Regime Shifts in Ecosystems 395  III.18 Responses of Communities and Ecosystems to Global Changes 407  III.19 Evolution of Communities and Ecosystems 414      Part IV: Landscapes and the Biosphere 423  IV.1 Landscape Dynamics 425  IV.2 Landscape Pattern and Biodiversity 431  IV.3 Ecological Dynamics in Fragmented Landscapes 438  IV.4 Biodiversity Patterns in Managed and Natural Landscapes 445  IV.5 Boundary Dynamics in Landscapes 458  IV.6 Spatial Patterns of Species Diversity in Terrestrial Environments 464  IV.7 Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions in Landscapes 474  IV.8 Seascape Patterns and Dynamics of Coral Reefs 482  IV.9 Seascape Microbial Ecology: Habitat Structure, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Function 488  IV.10 Spatial Dynamics of Marine Fisheries 501      Part V: Conservation Biology 511  V.1 Causes and Consequences of Species Extinctions 514  V.2 Population Viability Analysis 521  V.3 Principles of Reserve Design 529  V.4 Building and Implementing Systems of Conservation Areas 538  V.5 Marine Conservation 548  V.6 Conservation and Global Climate Change 557  V.7 Restoration Ecology 566      Part VI: Ecosystem Services 573  VI.1 Ecosystem Services: Issues of Scale and Trade-Offs 579  VI.2 Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Ecosystem Services 584  VI.3 Beyond Biodiversity: Other Aspects of Ecological Organization 591  VI.4 Human-Dominated Systems: Agroecosystems 597  VI.5 Forests 606  VI.6 Grasslands 614  VI.7 Marine Ecosystem Services 619  VI.8 Provisioning Services: A Focus on Fresh Water 625  VI.9 Regulating Services: A Focus on Disease Regulation 634  VI.10 Support Services: A Focus on Genetic Diversity 642  VI.11 The Economics of Ecosystem Services 652  VI.12 Technological Substitution and Augmentation of Ecosystem Services 659  VI.13 Conservation of Ecosystem Services 670      Part VII: Managing the Biosphere 679  VII.1 Biological Control: Theory and Practice 683  VII.2 Fisheries Management 689  VII.3 Wildlife Management 695  VII.4 Managing the Global Water System 701  VII.5 Managing Nutrient Mobilization and Eutrophication 712  VII.6 Managing Infectious Diseases 718  VII.7 Agriculture, Land Use, and the Transformation of Planet Earth 724  VII.8 The Ecology, Economics, and Management of Alien Invasive Species 731  VII.9 Ecological Economics: Principles of Economic Policy Design for  Ecosystem Management 740  VII.10 Governance and Institutions 748  VII.11 Assessments: Linking      Ecology to Policy 754  Milestones in Ecology 761  Glossary 775  Index 793

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Contains more than ninety articles on some of the most important topics within seven major areas: autecology, population ecology, communities and ecosystems, landscapes and the biosphere, conservation biology, ecosystem services, and biosphere management. This book is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students and research ecologists.

The Princeton guide to ecology